234 THE PRESENT AND FUTURE 



Montana, outside of Glacier Park, it is useless to apply for 

 wild grizzlies. In the Bitter Root Mountains and Clearwater 

 Mountains of Idaho there are grizzlies, but they hide so effec- 

 tually under the snow -bent willows on the "slides" that it is 

 almost impossible to get a shot at one of them. Northwestern 

 Wyoming still contains a few grizzlies, but there are so many 

 square miles of mountains around each animal it is now almost 

 useless to go hunting for them. British Columbia, western 

 Alberta and the coast mountains, at least as far as Skaguay, 

 and Yukon Territory generally, all contain grizzlies, and the 

 sportsman who goes out for sheep, caribou and moose is 

 reasonably certain to see half a dozen bears and kill at least 

 one or two. In those countries the grizzly species will hold 

 forth long after all killable grizzlies have vanished from the 

 United States. 



I think that it is now time for California, Montana, Wash- 

 ington, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming to give grizzly bears 

 protection of some sort. Possibly the situation in those 

 states calls for a five-year close season. Even British Colum- 

 bia should now place a bag limit on this species. This has 

 seemed clear to me ever since (in the spring of 1912) two of 

 my friends killed six grizzlies in one week! But Provincial 

 Game Warden A. Bryan Williams says that at present it 

 would be impossible to impose a bag limit of one per year on 

 the grizzlies of British Columbia; and Mr. Williams is a sin- 

 cere game-protector. 



The Brown Bears of Alaska. — These magnificent 

 monsters present a perplexing problem which I am inclined 

 to believe can be satisfactorily solved by the Biological Sur- 



